Quotes about Relationships

That man, she thought, her anger rising in her, never gave; that man took.

If this is love, there is something highly ridiculous about it.

I know what loves trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted, I have been torn apart.

Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned with how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.

Spiritual formation is relational formation. It is easier, and therefore more talked about, to practice spiritual disciplines in an effort to feel God's presence than to practice them in order to draw on the Spirit's power to love well. Spiritually forming people may or may not regularly experience God with them. But spiritually forming people will grow to increasingly reveal God's nature by how they relate.

We never argue anymore. And when we do, it never lasts more than a week or two.

You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

"Do other men for they would do you." That's the true business precept.